AMD Radeon R9 270 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 270 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon R9 270

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 270

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 month(s) later
4.7x more texture fill rate: 74 GTexel / s vs 15.68 GTexel / s
3.3x more pipelines: 1280 vs 384
3.1x better floating-point performance: 2,368 gflops vs 752.6 gflops
6.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4306 vs 668
Around 89% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 567 vs 300

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	13 November 2013 vs 26 August 2013
Texture fill rate	74 GTexel / s vs 15.68 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1280 vs 384
Floating-point performance	2,368 gflops vs 752.6 gflops
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	4306 vs 668
PassMark - G2D Mark	567 vs 300

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A

4.5x lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 150 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt vs 150 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 270
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

4306

668

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

567

300

Name	AMD Radeon R9 270	NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A
PassMark - G3D Mark	4306	668
PassMark - G2D Mark	567	300
Geekbench - OpenCL	74175
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	55.721
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1282.039
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	5.927
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	93.116
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	261.843
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	3448
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3347
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	3448
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3347
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1603

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R9 270	NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Kepler 2.0
Code name	Curacao	GK208
Design	AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch date	13 November 2013	26 August 2013
Launch price (MSRP)	$179
Place in performance rating	509	503
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	925 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,368 gflops	752.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	1280	384
Stream Processors	1280
Texture fill rate	74 GTexel / s	15.68 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt	33 Watt
Transistor count	2,800 million
Core clock speed		980 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	No outputs
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCIe 3.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x8
Length	210 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1 x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	179.2 GB/s	14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3
Memory clock speed		1800 MHz
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)